Subject & Research Guides: Indigenous Studies: Home

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Saint Mary's University is in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq.

This guide is a resource for research and study in the interdisciplinary aspects of Indigenous studies.It particularly focuses on Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.

These images of petroglyphs in Kejmkujik National Park are part of the Mi’kmaq Portraits Collection at the Nova Scotia Museum (MP0002, MP0007, MP0005)

Featured Books

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
ISBN: 9781443467810
Publication Date: 2023-05-30
A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good's personal experience and knowledge.
Decolonizing Sport by Murray G. Phillips (Editor); Janice Forsyth (Editor); Christine O'Bonsawin (Editor); Russell Field (Editor)
Publication Date: 2023-12-12
In both the United States and Canada, people witnessed the toppling of racist sports team names and logos in the spring and summer, not the least of which included the American Washington NFL team (Redskins) and the Canadian Edmonton CFL team (Eskimos). Clearly Indigenous people and their allies saw sport as a part of this desire for social change. This multi-authored collection contributes to that desire by bringing the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allied scholars together to explore the history of sport, physical activity, and embodied physical culture in the Indigenous context.
The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods by Tom Özden-Schilling
Publication Date: 2023-12-19
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among neighboring communities of White environmental scientists and First Nations mapmakers in northwest British Columbia, Özden-Schilling examines these researchers’ lasting investments and the ways they struggle to continue their work long after the loss of government funding.
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
Publication Date: 2023-03-01
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations?

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